Use Geckoboard Lite to display your dashboard

Geckoboard Lite is a basic version of Geckoboard for older and low-powered web browsers, like the many "out of the box" Smart-TV browsers. Unlike the regular Geckoboard, which is rendered as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Geckoboard Lite is rendered as images.

Some customers have used Geckoboard Lite to test run Geckoboard before buying additional hardware.

To get the best experience, see our guide to TV screens and devices for displaying your dashboard, but we understand you might want to see how they look like before buying additional hardware. Geckoboard Lite is a great way to achieve that. Through Geckoboard Lite you can easily have a first experience whilst on your free trial or when iterating and designing a new dashboard. Let's face it, pretty much all new TVs have a browser nowadays.

Geckoboard Lite can be enabled for your whole account via a toggle on the Send to TV modal.

Important note

Even if Geckoboard Lite is enabled, you'll get the standard Geckoboard when you display a dashboard through a robust web browser. In other words, the regular Geckoboard is our default. When you display a dashboard, we detect the type of browser and if Geckoboard Lite is enabled and only if the browser is not powerful enough we'll use Geckoboard Lite, otherwise we'll default to our standard version.

Limitations

Geckoboard Lite, as its name suggests, is a lighter version of Geckoboard. These are Geckoboard Lite's limitations:

Some visualizations aren't supported – you'll see an error message asking you to toggle off the functionality for the following widgets:

Enabling/disabling Geckoboard Lite

To enable Geckoboard Lite, you'll need to use Send to TV and pair at least one screen first, then from the "Manage connected screens" modal, simply enable Geckoboard Lite via the toggle.

If and when needed, use the same toggle to disable it.

Warning

Disabling Geckoboard Lite will enforce the standard version of Geckoboard on all devices, regardless of whether or not their browser is robust enough to render your dashboard correctly. For this reason we recommend keeping Geckoboard Lite enabled.